romney campaign jump the gun last night. >> it's disgraceful. >> it's disgraceful that the obama administration first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks. >> justice will be done. >> team romney has -- >> we shouldn't be on an apology tour. >> the original statements by the cairo embassy were long before. >> six hours before these protests even started. >> it suggests a level of desperation. >> the desperate reach by mitt romney. >> that makes him look a little bit out of touch. >> contracts and tone deaf. >> how did mitt romney get into this mess? >> he needs to be severely aggressive. >> the first response to the united states must be outrage. >> be very aggressive. >> well he aggressively shot himself in the foot. >> do not seem crass. >> he has a tendency to shoot first and aim later. >>> today, mitt romney started a media controversy and media backlash for comments he made on the attack at the embassy in libya that killed four americans. obama said this moments ago in nevada. >> as for the ones we

, everybody. president obama ordering heightened security for u.s. interests and personal overseas. following the murder of four americans, including the u.s. ambassador to libya and what appears to be a coordinated contemporaneous attack on the american embassy in cairo. president obama tonight embroiled in controversy as his administration is forced to rationalize to state department apologies to radical islamists run into conflict with the anti-mohammed movie. we bring you the latest developments tonight. and an analysis by ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. and doctor walid phares. former pentagon official kt mcfarland. bringing you up-to-date on what is happening in washington and the middle east. two of our outpost attacked on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks 11 years ago. in egypt, the american embassy staff were assessing reports of a possible demonstration outside the embassy in cairo. the embassy sent out a message, that was sympathetic to muslims, upset by the movie, tweeting that we condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelin

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justice john roberts as a bush appointee working for the re-election of barack obama. it's the economy, stupid, it will re-elect barack obama that will throw us off the fiscal cliff and all the fed money won't save us. this is a disaster, mark my words. >> i will mark those words. we will come back to you with much more about your fed gone rogue hypothesis. is anti-american protests spread across the middle east tonight as violent clashes erupted in yemen, iran, morocco and the sudan. you're looking at pictures from outside the u.s. embassy in cairo tonight where protests continue for a third straight day. that's where nbc's richard engle join us from this evening with the very latest? hello, richard. >> reporter: clashes are continuing here tonight in tahrir square near the u.s. embassy even at this late hour. they were not the only ones today. so far the clashes and protests by people who were infuriated by that obscure internet video that was so anti-islamic, so inflammatory, so far these protests have been relatively small and happened in at least 11 different countries. th

up, i was furious. andd apparently so was the president. >> obama: we will not waiver to see that justice will be done and make no mistake, justice will be done. >> violence like this is no way to honor religion or faith. >> cenk: i'll tell you what, that story, though, is changing by the minute. some amazing details that might change the way you look at that story entirely coming up in just a minute. also, mitt romney might have destroyed his campaign on this issue. >> romney: possibly the administration was wrong to stand by its statements sympathizing for those who had reached our embassy in egypt. >> cenk: well, i tell you what, it's not just liberals but also conservatives ripping mitt romney on those statements. outrageous. we'll tell you all about it. then we'll talk about the movie and the crazy people behind it that started this whole mess in the first place. >> put your head between my thighs. >> cenk: it's a crazy movie. will i defend it or attack it. only one way to find out. stay right here. it's go time. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> cenk: welcome to "the young turks," everyb

: thank you, greg. earlier in morning, president obama spoke at the white house. >> the united states condemns this outrageous, shocking attack. we're working with the government of libya to secure the diplomats. increase the security and diplomatic posts throughout the world. make no mistake, we will work with the libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people. >> dana: secretary of state hillary clinton had this to say. >> america's commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. but let me be clear. there is no justification for this. none. violence like this in no way to honor religion or faith. as long as there are hose to take innocent life in name of god, the world will never know true and lasting peace. >> dana: all right, bob, in these situations, the first reports are almost always wrong. things get caught up too quickly and we didn't find out until about 2:00 in the morning that ambassadorsteins had been killed and now we are finding out the name of the others. sean smith. what is your reaction to this? >> b

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obama? then, republicans who support marriage equality. >> hello i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to the contrary. a discussion of news and social friends from by verse ber speculatives. up first, the important choice ahead for women voters. [♪] barack obama and the democrats believe women will be the deciding factor in the presidential election. so they are working hard to drive them to the polls. >> and if you share that faith with me, if you share that hope with me, i ask you tonight for your vote. >> at their convention, democrats put women front, center and really everywhere. there were tributes to women senators and women house members. one woman after another took to the stage to make the case for reelecting president obama. >> we are far better off with barack obama than we were with george w. bush. that is why the republicans said gotcha. are you better off? absolutely. >> when you look at our convention, you see america represented. you see the diversity. you see the role of women all of us members of congress, women members on that stage, sent a big message across this natio

obama never said he did. even the u.s. embassy in cairo didn't say anything such thing. it merely urged people to stirring up east/west hatred by mocking islam. there's a lesson here, mitt romney is able to be pushed. he jumps into matters before understanding them. and it shows. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. >>> good evening, americans. and welcome to "the ed show." i'm ezra klein in for ed schultz, and there is 55 days until the 2012 election. the tragic events in libya today have turned into ugly politics in america. this has genuinely been one of those 24-hour periods that could reshape not only the presidential campaign, but american foreign policy going forward. we'll have all the details. as ed would say, let's get to work. today was an incredibly important day in the u.s. presidential race. in response to the awful attacks in libya, mitt romney said something that was genuinely unbelievable. and then more amazing, he doubled down on it. this is the kind of thing, the kind of day we could look back o

starting in october. i don't think this obama campaign are going to let it go quietly through the three debates. >> we withanks >>> good evening, americans. and welcome to "the ed show." i'm ezra klein in for ed schultz, and there is 55 days until the 2012 election. the tragic events in libya today have turned into ugly politics in america. this has genuinely been one of those 24-hour periods that could reshape not only the presidential campaign, but american foreign policy going forward. we'll have all the details. as ed would say, let's get to work. today was an incredibly important day in the u.s. presidential race. in response to the awful attacks in libya, mitt romney said something that was genuinely unbelievable. and then more amazing, he doubled down on it. this is the kind of thing, the kind of day we could look back on the 2012 campaign and say, yeah, romney just never quite managed to recover from that. here's romney and obama today. >> i think it's a -- a -- a terrible course for america, to stand in apology for our values. >> there's a broader lesson to be learned her

his ugly claim that president obama was apologizing for america in the wake of the tragedy in libya. but here's what happened as he began to address the subject. >> we're thinking about the families and those he left behind. >> why are you poll lit advertising libya? it's a question that many is beginning to ask the question and want answered. it's now been two days since his first disgraceful criticism of this country's response to the violent attacks that left four dead. today a launch checker was flat out wrong. here are the headlines. romney misstates facts, romney gets it backward. fact checker says no to romney. apology claims. let's be clear. governor romney claims the obama administration apologized for american values after u.s. embassies were attacked. this is not true. and the president agrees. >> it appears that governor romney doesn't have his facts right. >> criticism of the president in moments when americans are under attack is no time for politics and to have the facts wrong just compounds the wrong. so knowing this, why wouldn't he correct the record? why won't he

statement last night, it's disgraceful that the obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our top plow our diplomatic missions but to sympathize with those who wage attacks. at the point that the cairo embassy had issued their statements, there had been no attacks. a protest was gathering. but after romney issued that statement last night, it was confirmed that, in fact, the ambassador in libya was killed. now, all of this happened and romney is publicly criticized for jumping the gun on issuing his statement before he even knew what the heck was going on. so what does he do? he doubles down on the wrongful criticism of the president. >> romney: a terrible course for america to stand in apology for our values that instead when our grounds are being attacked and being breached that the first response to the united states must be outrage at breach of the sovereignty of our nation. >> jennifer: unbelievable. the president did, in fact, express outrage of the facts. romney did it before he had the facts. he said, quote he strongly condemned the attack. the p

"the washington post" columnist go head to head over hate toward president obama. charles will be zero if the republic party is missing anything it's sort of this war on women. >> war on women? sandra fluke? she is 30 for god's sake. just shut up for a second, okay? >> dennis miller man oman over the president. >> go factor, go factor. >> caution, you where to enter the no spin zone from massachusetts. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly, reporting tonight from washington, more americans murdered by militant muslims. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. right off the bat offended the far left. they don't want the facts reported about the islam i islamic jihad the followers of allah who kill in the name of their religion. that's tough. my job is to till the truth. in libya, 52-year-old christopher stevens, the american ambassador to that country was murdered last night along with three other american citizens. fox news has obtained information that those killings were apparently planned. not a spontaneous demonstration. but in e

campaign and say, yeah, romney just never quite managed to recover from that. here's romney and obama today. >> i think it's a -- a -- a terrible course for america, to stand in apology for our values. >> there's a broader lesson to be learned here, and you know, governor romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later. and as president, one of the things i've learned is that you can't do that. it's important for you to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts and that you've thought through the ramifications before you make them. >> we will get into all of that tonight. i promise you will we will do the campaign in detail. but before we do, in an election year, presidential politics has a tendency to overshadow everything else. there's a tendency to only care about real genuinely important events in terms of their effect on the campaign. but what happened over the last 24 hours in libya and cairo needs to be understood on its own terms first, because the ramifications could be with us for quite a while, no matter who is president. and so we

kelly. the news is breaking across the globe this hour as you see president obama at a re-election event in golden, colorado, screen right. screen left, and during his campaign remarks, he is expected to talk about what we're seeing on screen right. live pictures of cairo where angry protesters are staged outside of the american embassy again. they have been throwing bottles, there have been clashes all day, and we will continue to monitor the events there along with the president's comments. we'll have a live report from our chief white house correspondent ed henry on what we can expect from the in just a few minutes. in the meantime, u.s. diplomatic posts are on alert this hour. we have witnessed protests in yemen, iraq, egypt, tunisia, bangladesh and, of course, the attack on a u.s. consulate in libya that left four americans, including the u.s. ambassador, dead on the 11-year anniversary of 9/11. that attack first presumed to be linked somehow to a controversial film made by a private citizen in america that depicts the prophet muhammad in a negative light, but now authorities are in

detention provision passed and signed by president obama on new year's eve last year as part of the national defense authorization act of the n.d.a. a judge forester agreed with the plaintiffs that the provision could chill the first amendment and leave journalism vulnerable to indefinite dissent detention if they associate with terrorist organizations while trying to cover stories the obama administration is appealing the ruling but joining me now to explain what this ruling means and where we go from here is one of the lead plaintiffs in the case investigative journalist chris hedges the author of numerous best selling books including his latest days of destruction days of revolt chris welcome back. thank you tom great to see you to begin with what did you argue were the consequences of this indefinite detention provision and how did the and how did judge forrest respond to that and argued. well this provision section ten twenty one of the national defense authorization act which as you pointed out was signed by obama into law on december thirty first. overturned two hundred years

ambassador for the obama administration -- >> greg: i would only be an ambassador to hawaii. believe me. i'm not brave. you are having demonstrations, because they're covered. it goes back to the saying if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, does it fall or whatever. >> eric: does it make a sound? >> greg: i don't care about the anti-american sentiment. i care about the americans being safe. they can have their protests until the day that die. i don't care. we have shouldn't care how they feel about us. what we should concentrate on is protecting the people abroad or getting them the hell out of there. let them have the dumb protests. >> eric: hold your thoughts, because we want to bring up topic two. some people are trying to blame obscure movie for murder of americans and case lating violence. even secretary of state hillary clinton mind-numbingly doubled down on the diversion tactic today. listen. >> i also want to take a moment to address the video circulating on the internet that has said to the protests this video -- that has led to the protests. the video is disgust

. and we'll continue to ask the question, is obama's middle east policy collapsing? one of the top leaders in israel's parliament joins us in our next hour and so does jassa, a critic worldwide. and i'll put it, the only country in that region p prospering is israel and the statements of romney. >> the statements were inappropriate and in my view, a disgraceful statement on the the part of our administration, to an apologize for american values. >> in the news background today. 382,000 new claims for jobless benefits and that's a negative read on the employment for us, inflation picking up at the producer level and the biggest mover of all the markets thus far this morning is oil. we're now well above $98 a barrel and this is all middle east related and the highest in four months. trading has begun on wall street and we're expecting a 20, maybe 30 point drop for the dow right there on the opening bell and the opening trend is indeed to the down side. question, will the new iphone give apple shares a boost? announced late yesterday, slimmer, lighter, big screen. nicole, where is it.

united states and several foreign leaders interview with telemundo on wednesday president obama said that he doesn't consider the current government in egypt and ally and a twitter feud erupted today between the ruling muslim brotherhood party in egypt and the u.s. embassy in cairo also in libya the to the u.s. military is deploying two warships marines and drones in response to tuesday's attack on the consulate egypt libya and yemen are all nations that got swept up in the arab spring and today are in the midst of revolution which is never easy so what can be gleaned from these recent events and what might the future hold for that region. he joins me now from new york he is a spokesperson for the many american coalition for change and illegal worker with the center for constitutional rights in yemen and from california dr mark le vine a professor of history at the university of california irvine with a focus on the middle east welcome to you both thank you for joining us tonight thanks for. the bring him the u.s. diplomatic buildings were attacked and three nations that have been to

these people have been emboldened because president bush and obama chose to lose two wars. >> look, we are dealing with religious fanaticism. we have an ambassador in libya that are happening that helping the people put together the purpose of the attacks, which is to cause the united states to pull back from the region and pullback from vital interest that we have there, protecting israel and securing supplies of oil and natural gas from the producing countries. that is what they want. as this spreads across the region, it can have a profound economic impact worldwide as we see the price of oil already going on. gerri: absolutely. there are all kinds of impacts. i want to talk about the president today. telling telemundo that egypt is not an ally. would you make of that k.t. mcfarland? >> does is really tearing through. we thought qadhafi might kill people. are we doing the same thing with syria? no. people are being slaughtered and they are refugees. the arab spring started nt wrong. when people took to the streets to protest, obama turned the other direction. when people went to the

evening the obama said that was by the embassy they didn't speak for us. mitt romney jumped on this along with reince pribus. >> one of the good things that has come out of this is you have got various members of the media finally saying what is going on here. you have america helpren who tweeted out, doubling down equals the most craven and ill-advised moment of 2012 that's why they are calling it the lehman moment. >> john: uh-huh. >> when john mccain tried to suspend his campaign. joe scarborough tweeted out that he had been inundated from emails and calls from elected gop leaders who think romney's response was a mistake. you have peggy nunan saying i don't believe that mr. romney has been doing himself any favor lately. ben smith if you think the eye rolling at romney is just coming from the main stream media, call up some republican foreign policy hands. >> john: i heard john sununu himself. >> this is a problem for romney. what he is doing now, when he is trying to appeal to the right-wing evangelical base by making it clear that he really doesn't like muslims. it's all a pla

and we've got the debates starting in october. i don't think this obama campaign are going to let it go quietly through the ree debates. >> we will thanks >>> romney pummels libya. let's start "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with the horrible story of the courageous diplomat in libya. he acted heroically in overthrowing lives during ka dauf fee. hours before the killing, romney issued a statement accusing president obama of having sympathized with those making the attacks and called it disgraceful. reince priebus went further, tweeting toll a similar attack on cairo. this echos past attacks from the right. what is new on the statement in libya is the wildness. the president never said he sympathized with the crowds in libya and egypt. mark halperin and howard fineman are political analysts for msnbc. how did romney get in this mess? look at the timeline of events. it started yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m. eastern time, noon in cairo. that's when the american embassy put out a statement saying it condemns the statements by misguided

." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. tonight, president obama leads for the search of killers for justice for the murder of four americans in the line of duty. mitt romney, meanwhile, continues his desperate attempt to justify his effort to exploit chris stevens and the others. for the critics of romney's supporters, what made him do it? the hawkish urge to address the neocon handlers or could it be both? president obama benefits from the national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals. his rival is surrounded by campaign hot shots imagine trying to repeat or to reap on the spot joining us is nia-malika henderson. let's listen to the president. >> what i want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow americans to justice. i want people around the world to hear me, to all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. it will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. no act of violence shakes the resolve of the united states of america. >> and th

. president barack obama and the american people for the attack on the embassy today, saying this was unacceptable and ordered yemeni security forces to launch an investigation and prosecute anybody they found involved in this to the full extent of the law. this was quite worrying today. for one reason, the u.s. embassy compound in sanaa is one of the most protected sites. not just in the city of s aanaa, the capital of yemen, but practically in all of the country of yemen. i've been to yemen several times, been to sanaa several times. i've been to the u.s. embassy. this site is not easily accessible to anybody. i spoke to activists in sanaa who said they were watching what was going on from rooftops of nearby buildings. they say they were absolutely shocked that this crowd, marching toward the embassy, was able to get as close as they did to the main gate and then that they were actually able to breach the compound. they were flabbergasted by this. they can't understand how yemen security could allow this to happen. in the ensuing hours more than 1,000 security officers surrounded th

obama issued a new warning. >> i want people around the world to hear me, to all those that would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. it will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. no act of violence shakes the resolve of the united states of amera. >> earlier today secretary of state hillary clinton stepped up her criticism of the anti-muslim film that first prompted the protests. >> to us, to me personally, this video is disgusting and reprehensib reprehensible. it appears to have a deeply cynical purpose to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage. >> joining me now live from cairo, nbc's similar maceda. give us the best description of how things are right now. >> reporter: well, ironically benghazi remaid calm today. if you look at it, perhaps the libyan government's quick crackdown there on those alleged perpetrators. four individuals were arrested today. there's a manhunt going on that might have had a tamping-down effort. even there in benghazi, the u.s. government is taking no chances. we understand that all u.s. p

, deadly attack on the anniversary of 9/11? paul ryan slamming the obama administration over its response. >> i disagree with the original statements that the embassy put out, that the administration put out in cairo, sympathizing with the people who are storming the embassy. we should stand up for our values values and free speech rights. i think that statement was wrong. >> greta: see much more of our interview with congressman ryan. is president obama more worried about winning the election or fighting off terrorists? here's what rush limbaugh thinks. >> the obama camp, the campaign, the white house and the media all condemned romney before they condemned the attacks. obama thought it more worthwhile to hit romney for what he was doing than the terrorrives for what they did. >> greta: you hear much more from rush limbaugh, straight ahead. but first, you are looking live at the u.s. embass necairo, egypt. it is 4:00 a.m., protesters are back outside, our embassy and the protests are turning violent. all night, we are going to be monitoring the live pictures from cairo and sarah palin, b

? ( laughter ) ( applause ) president obama. request ( cheers and applause ) but before the man-- before the man who, from what i understand, had a role in the demise of terrorist mastermind osama bin laden-- >> done! ( laughter ). >> jon: got it. before the president would speak, we were treated to more democratic all-stars, the daughter of the president. a didn't become president. and the winner of the prestigious 2012 gesticulators invitational, former michigan governor, jennifer granholm. >> we need to ref up our engines in your car and on your ballots. the "d." is for drive forward. the "r." is for reverse. in this election, we are driving forward, not back. let's re-elect our great president, barack obama! >> jon: holy ( bleep )! i can't believe it. in my estimation, that woman shouldn't be driving at all! ( laughter ) ( applause ) she appears to be a drunk flight attendant. ( laughter ) ( applause ) you know, there's someone i met last week in tampa i would love to set the governor up with for a lost weekend of political infighting and hate ( bleep ). >> president obama's never ru

very, very tense after the deadly attack in libya president obama is vowing to find the killer there. the u.s. ambassador, chris stevens died tuesday night after a mob stormed the consulate in benghazi. the violence spreading not only in cairo, you can see live pictures from egypt. spreading in the region and to a certain degree as well. we'll stay on top of the. that's it for us, thank you very much for watching, "ac 360" starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone. breaking news tonight. american warships and u.s. marines on the move, drones airborne. and a running battle on the streets of cairo between police and protesters outside and near the u.s. embassy and at a mosque in tahrir square. these are live pictures. lake new developments in the wake of the siege there yesterday and the attack on the u.s. consulate that left four americans dead, including j. christopher stevens, the ambassador to libya who's being remembered as a dedicated and talented advocate for this country overseas. it is hard to overstate the significance of what happened last night at that american consulate

evening news, president obama also had sharp words for mitt romney, who's come under fire from democrats and some republicans for his statements lashing out at the obama administration's response to the attacks in benghazi and cairo. statements that whatever you believe about american foreign policy are simply not factual. we'll get to the battle over that in a moment. first we do want to focus on the attacks themselves, what happened last night and what is happening right now with the latest information we have. again, you're looking at live pictures now from cairo. as we said, breaking news both in libya and cairo to tell you about. yesterday's all-out assault on the american embassy may be over but the fighting around it continues tonight in cairo. the compound now ringed with security forces, egyptian security forces who are reportedly using tear gas and about 500 protesters gathering at a mosque in nearby tahrir square. those are the images you're seeing. amid all that, we're also learning more details, pretty bizarre stuff, about that video that seems to have lit a powder

. president obama has ordered that flags fly at half staff across the united states and at embassies around the world until sunday night. >>> i'm wolf blitzer in for piers morgan. earlier today the republican challenger, mitt romney, blasted president obama for what he characterized as, quote, an apology for america's values over the storming of the u.s. embassy in cairo. >> an apology for america's values is never the right course. >> the president fired right back in an interview tonight with cbs news. >> governor romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and name later, and as president, one of the things i've learned is you can't do that. you know, it's important for you to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts and that you've thought through the ramifications before you make them. >> and there are late-breaking developments right now. two u.s. navy warships of moving toward the coast of libya and 50 marines are on the ground in tripoli right now. cnn is there and ian lee is in cairo. what is the latest in libya? >> reporter: well, wolf, what

central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> obama! obama! >> you didn't build that. that. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome to report, everybody. good to have you with us. thank you so much. why. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you so much. please. ( cheering ) nation, thank you, everybody. please, sit down. now, folks, i don't know if you watched it, but last night, the mindless mobs got together again to pander to the youth and congratulate each other on slowly destroying the moral fabric of america. ( laughter ) but what do you expect? it was the vmas. ( laughter ) ( applause ) folks, i don't know about you-- ( cheers and applause ) i don't upon about you, but i am outraged that all-american band and friend of the report, fun, was beaten out last night for best new artist by the british boy band, one direction. folks, i don't want a bunch of snagle-toothed, spotted dick-eating union jackoffs telling america the number of directions we can go in. ( cheers and applause ). but i will give them th

will have more tomorrow night. you want to keep it here. >>> murder in benghazi. president obama vows justice will be done after the horrific killing of the u.s. ambassador to libya. >>> money out the window. bank robbery suspects hurl cash during a high-speed police chase. >>> baby guz. what duchess kate has been turning down sparking pregnancy rumors. >>> good morning. i'm mara schiavocampo. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with firing back. in response to deadly attacks in libya that killed a u.s. ambassador and three diplomats, an elite group of marines has been sent to ramp up security in libya's capital. this as the obama administration responds to criticism from republican rival mitt romney while investigating whether the attacks were specifically coordinated to take place on the anniversary of 9/11. nbc's tracie potts has more from washington. good morning. >> reporter: march rarks here on capitol hill, the senate approved a resolution honoring the victims and calling this attack unacceptable and unjust find. a nation in mourning as the bodies of four a

election or fighting off terrorists? here's what rush limbaugh thinks. >> the obama camp, the campaign, the white house and the media all condemned romney before they condemned the attacks. obama thought it more worthwhile to hit romney for what he was doing, than the terrorists for what they did. >> hear much more from rush limbaugh, straight ahead. but first, you are looking live at the u.s. ermbass necairo, egypt. it is 4:00 a.m. and protesters are back outside our embasset and protests are turning violent. all night, we're going to be monitoring live pictures from cairo. and former alaska governor sarah palin blasting president obama over the violence. governor sarah palin saying, in part... >> i know that you knew the ambassador, or had met him. but very disturbing news. >> we are in a critical period. these attack, the assassination of our ambassador and three of his colleagues is in muslim brotherhood, in libya and egypt have seen weakness and they have acted on it. and the administration has done nothing today to correct the impression that the weakness in our policy r

expanding foreign policy crisis for president obama. >>> meanwhile, on the political front, mitt romney stands by his criticism of the obama administration's handling of the volatile situation in the middle east. those same conservative voices who were knocking on monday are singing romney's praises now. >>> also this morning, former florida governor charlie crist says the gop left him, now he's moving left to help president obama get re-elected. account ex-gov gin up some love in the sunshine state? >>> good morning from washington. it is thursday, september 13, 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. >>> we begin with another tumultuous day in the middle east. is president obama dealing with a full fledged foreign policy crisis? sure looks like it this morning. froefts in the arab world linked to an amateur film denouncing islam fueling the demonstrations. hundreds stormed the u.s. embassy grounds in sanaa breaking through an outer perimeter, smashing windows of the security offices outside the embassy and burning cars. security guards tried to hold them off by firin

, meltdown in europe. >> any new economic juice could help president obama over mitt romney ahead of the election. the fed chairman denied any political motive. >> we have been successful to be nonpartisan and apolitical and make decisions based entirely on the state of the economy. and needs of the economy for policy accommodation. >> if the new stimulus goes according to plan, the fed projects unemployment could hit 6.5% by 2015. bret? >> bret: financial junkies out there, this is qe3. >> quantitative easing the third round. yes. >> bret: peter, thank you. wall street reacted very positively to the news today. the dow gained 206-1/2. the seventh biggest gain this year. highest close since december of 2007. the s&p 500 was up 23, the nasdaq finished ahead 41-1/2. applications for jobless benefit rose by 15,000 last week. more than expected. to 382,000. part of that is being attributed to work slowdown caused by hurricane isaac. the september jobs number arrives october 5. two days after the first presidential debate. a sharp rise in gasoline costs, drove up wholesale prices by 1.7% in a

thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. president obama is scheduled to speak at a campaign event in nevada shortly. you can see there he's being introduced at that event. we're not generally in the business of playing every candidate's stump speech in its entirety every time there is a campaign event with a camera present. if we did that, basically here to november would be a continuous loop of candidates giving the same speech with tiny variations over and over again, every single day. but, but at a time of great international sensitivity, like we are in today, in the wake of the deadly attack on americans at the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, in the last 24 hours, at times like this, frankly all of any president's public appearances have a higher than normal potential to make real news. so we are going to be monitoring the president's campaign speech, and if he makes comments about the protests in libya, we will bring that to you. the president just sat down with an interview with jose diaz balart, the host of telemundo on our sister network. excerpts of this